COUN­CIL WINS $1.7M FUND­ING

All cor­ners of Banana will ben­e­fit

THE LAT­EST round of Works for Queens­land fund­ing was an­nounced by the State Govern­ment last week and Banana Shire was lucky enough to be a re­cip­i­ent.

“I am pleased to an­nounce that Banana Shire Coun­cil have been suc­cess­ful in ob­tain­ing $1.71 mil­lion in the 2017-19 fund­ing through the State Govern­ments Works for Queens­land pro­gram,” Banana Shire Coun­cil Mayor Nev Fer­rier said.

The pro­gram al­lows the projects to be fully funded by the State Govern­ment, with no re­quire­ment of funds from Banana Shire Coun­cil.

“Works for Queens­land is grant money given to coun­cils to stim­u­late jobs in re­gional Queens­land,” Cr Fer­rier said.

“The 2017-19 Works for Queens­land pro­gram sup­ports re­gional coun­cils such as the Banana Shire Coun­cil to un­der­take job-cre­at­ing main­te­nance

and mi­nor in­fra­struc­ture projects.”

In 2016-17, 700 projects

were ap­proved across the state and seven projects were funded lo­cally.